Today we drove to a visitor center and a few campgrounds where we could leave our van and look carefully for birds.
After lunch I went up on the observation deck and did a 360 scan. Looking with binoculars into the acacia scrub forest From this one spot I saw giraffe, buffalo, zebra, gazelle, baboon, hyrax, and mongoose. Such variety is typical of the Serengeti.
In the afternoon we saw the big three of cats: leopard (in a tree pretty far off), lion (two prides resting close, over 20 lions, including our first adult male), and the luckiest, a cheetah on a ridge about 300 yrds away finishing a kill.
My bird list continues to grow, another 11 new species were seen today.
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